U.S. News & World Report 2015 College Rankings Include All 28 U.S. Jesuit Institutions

September 12, 2014 — All 28 U.S. Jesuit
colleges and universities have been ranked near the top of their classification
categories in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Colleges” report.

For the twelfth consecutive year,
Creighton University was ranked first for Midwest master’s universities.

Among 84 master’s universities ranked in the
West, four Jesuit institutions were in the top five: Santa Clara University
(second), Gonzaga University and Loyola Marymount University (tied at third)
and Seattle University (fifth). Santa
Clara University was also highlighted as having the highest freshman retention
rate of any master’s university in the country and the highest graduation rate
in the West at 84 percent.

Jesuit schools also stood out in the category
of “Best Colleges for Veterans,” where Georgetown University ranked first. Other
Jesuit schools that ranked highly in this category include Marquette University,
Saint Louis University, Xavier University, Le Moyne College, Spring Hill
College, Wheeling Jesuit University and Rockhurst University.

Below is the list of Jesuit institutions in the 2015 U.S.
News & World Report rankings;
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view the full list of institutions.

National
Universities (committed to research; offer full range of undergraduate majors,
master's and doctorate programs;201 ranked)21. Georgetown University
31. Boston College
58. Fordham University
76. Marquette University
99. Saint Louis University
106. Loyola University Chicago
106. University of San Francisco

August 21, 2018 – As we reckon with the Grand Jury report on sexual abuse by priests in Pennsylvania and the failures of bishops to protect the children entrusted to their care, our hearts and prayers—first and foremost—are with the victim-survivors.

January 17, 2019 — Let us pray in thanksgiving for the life of Fr. Eugene F. Merz, SJ, who was called to eternal life on January 16, 2019, around 5:30 a.m. Gene died at Zilber Hospice in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He was eighty-seven years old, a Jesuit for seventy years, and a priest for fifty-seven years.

January 16, 2019 — It was a homecoming fifty years in the making. In 2016, Fr. Casey Bukala, SJ, moved to the Colombiere Center near Detroit, where elder Jesuits live in community, receive the healthcare they need, and pray for the Church and the Society. It was not Fr. Bukala’s first time at Colombiere, however.

January 9, 2019 — Let us pray in thanksgiving for the life of Fr. John “Jack” R. Crocker, SJ, who died on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at Colombiere Center in Clarkston, Michigan. He was 88 years old. May he rest in peace.